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process identifier

<operating system>

(PID) An integer used by the Unix kernel to uniquely identify a process. PIDs are returned by the fork system call and can be passed to wait() or kill() to perform actions on the given process.

Last updated: 1996-12-09

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Process Design Language 2 ♦ process ID ♦ process identifier ♦ processing ♦ processor

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